Koniwa, Pondaung Sandstone (Eocene of Myanmar)

Also known as AMNH A21

Where: Myanmar (21.9° N, 94.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 92.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pondaung Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and red, white, yellow siliciclastic

• successive beds of cherry-red, bright buff and cream-white earths interstratified with brown or buff sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. Colbert. 1938. Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74:255-436 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41307: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 12.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
"Burmemys magnifica" = Allaeochelys magnifica
"Burmemys magnifica" = Allaeochelys magnifica Hutchison et al. 2004 turtle
shell fragments
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
"Titanotheriidae indet." = Brontotheriidae
"Titanotheriidae indet." = Brontotheriidae Marsh 1873 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Paramynodon birmanicus
Paramynodon birmanicus odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
"Anthracothema ? pangan" = Anthracotherium pangan, "Anthracothema rubricae" = Anthracotherium pangan
"Anthracothema ? pangan" = Anthracotherium pangan Pilgrim and Cotter 1916 anthracothere
"Anthracothema rubricae" = Anthracotherium pangan Pilgrim and Cotter 1916 anthracothere
 Artiodactyla -
Anthracothema sp.
Anthracothema sp. Pilgrim 1928 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Indomeryx cotteri
Indomeryx cotteri Pilgrim 1928 ruminant